Biography & Autobiography

Saint Athanasius

by Frances Alice Forbes Read by pattymarie 4.8
A short and rather old fashioned biography a great saint. Don't expect subtlety; it's unapologetic hagiography. The saint is presented as a …

Outwitting The Hun

by Pat O'Brien Read by David Wales 4.8
A true war narrative, published in 1918 while WWI was still going on. (Summary by David Wales)

The Life of Cicero

by Anthony Trollope Read by Philippa 4.7
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43BC) was an orator, statesman, philosopher and prolific correspondent, who rose as a ‘new man’ in Rome in the tu…

The Autobiography of St. Ignatius

by St. Ignatius Loyola Read by Phil Chenevert 4.7
This account of the life of St. Ignatius, dictated by himself to Father Gonzalez, is a most valuable record of the great Founder of the Soc…

The Trail of the Hawk

by Sinclair Lewis Read by John W. Michaels 4.6
Trail of the Hawk, narrated by Mike Vendetti aka Miketheauctioneer, is Sinclair Lewis’ second novel published under his own name. It was not…

The Life of St. Teresa

by Frances Alice Forbes Read by MariaS 4.9
The Life of St. Teresa offers an insightful exploration into the life of Teresa of Ávila, a pivotal figure in the history of Christia…

Foxe's Book of Martyrs

by John Foxe Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
The Book of Martyrs, by John Foxe, is an English Protestant account of the persecutions of Protestants, many of whom had died for their beli…

Twelve Years a Slave

by Solomon Northup Read by Rob Marland 4.7
Twelve Years a Slave is the memoir of a freeborn African American from New York who is kidnapped and sold into slavery. After being held for…

Sergeant York and His People

by Sam K. Cowan Read by Brett W. Downey 4.7
From a cabin back in the mountains of Tennessee, forty-eight miles from the railroad, a young man went to the World War. He was untutored in…

My Inventions and Other Works

by Nikola Tesla Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Between February and October 1919, Nikola Tesla submitted many articles to the magazine Electrical Experimenter. The most famous of these wo…

Emma McChesney and Company

by Edna Ferber Read by Phil Chenevert 4.6
This is the final volume in the trilogy following the smart, stylish, divorced and independent businesswoman Emma McChesney in her career fr…

The Story of Joan of Arc

by Andrew Lang Read by timothyFR 4.6
Joan of Arc is a folk heroine of France and a Roman Catholic saint. Claiming divine guidance, she led the French army to several important v…

Poor Richard's Almanack

by Benjamin Franklin Read by Michele Fry 4.7
A brief biographical sketch of Franklin's life, followed by a collection (published in 1899) of 670 aphorisms, apothegms, or proverbs - shor…

The Life of Anthony

by Athanasius of Alexandria Read by Matthew James Gray 4.8
Anthony (251-356CE) lived in Egypt, and became one of the fathers of Christian desert monasticism. When he was about 18 years old, and havin…

The Voyage of the Beagle

by Charles Darwin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The book, also known as Darwin's Journal of Researches, is a vivid and exciting travel memoir as well as a detailed scientific field journal…

A First Century Message to Twentieth Century Christians

by G. Campbell Morgan Read by MaryAnn 5
G. Campbell Morgan was one of the leading evangelical preachers of his day. He began preaching at age 13 and by age 26 was teaching at the …

Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

by Andrew Carnegie Read by William Tomcho 4.6
This autobiography of Andrew Carnegie is a very well written and interesting history of one of the most wealthy men in the United states. He…

Oroonoko

by Aphra Behn Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.4
Aphra Behn was the first woman writer in England to make a living by her pen, and her novel Oroonoko was the first work published in English…

Ecce Homo

by Friedrich Nietzsche Read by TimSC 4.4
The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche's autobiography, Ecce Homo, was the last prose work that he wrote before his illness in 1889. Coming at …

The Story of Aristotle's Philosophy

by Will Durant Read by Pamela Nagami 4.8
This little Blue Book No. 39, by Will Durant, deals with Aristotle (384-322 B.C.E.), a Macedonian pupil of Plato, who became the teacher of …

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